From b91766295f2b873bbd4ef79c06de05aff27f8e12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:12:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.7.7 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt index 6d3bfd196..8d0404d6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -6,7 +6,14 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. - * Interix and Cygwin ports got updated. + * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated. + + * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/). + + * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists, + before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf + (this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl + does not exist). * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on @@ -18,11 +25,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to - read the entire contents of a file in memory first. + read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round + of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but + now it has been plugged. * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. + * "git commit ..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that + refer outside your current subdirectory. + * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of diffstat report. @@ -34,6 +46,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic output format of "ack". + * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same + logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. + * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. @@ -66,12 +81,27 @@ included in this release. * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files. (merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later) + * "git fast-export" forgot to quote pathnames with unsafe characters + in its output. + (merge 6280dfd jk/fast-export-quote-path later) + * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories. (merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later) + * "git ls-tree" did not error out when asked to show a corrupt tree. + (merge 04f8925 js/ls-tree-error later) + + * "git pull" without any argument left an extra whitespace after the + command name in its reflog. + (merge c98d1e4 oa/pull-reflog later) + * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches. (merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p later) + * "git reset [] paths..." did not reset the index entry correctly + for unmerged paths. + (merge ff00b682 jc/maint-reset-unmerged-path later) + * "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when the superproject did not have any default remote url. (merge f22a17e8 jl/submodule-add-relurl-wo-upstream later) @@ -80,6 +110,9 @@ included in this release. the user-supplied command it invoked. (merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later) + * "git submodule update --quiet" was not really quiet. + (merge 7e60407 jl/submodule-update-quiet later) + * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git submodule sync". @@ -92,7 +125,7 @@ included in this release. -- exec >/var/tmp/1 echo O=$(git describe master) -O=v1.7.6-344-g22f4128 +O=v1.7.6-446-g0af53e1 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master echo git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master -- 2.30.2